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I'm not doing great at all today. I'm feeling down. I also keep beating myself up for everything and feel like I'm just failing. I need a break from everything. It's getting so hard that I don't know how to keep going anymore especially since I can't talk to anyone around me as they are leaving me or don't understand.
Hope you don’t mind me reaching out I just really need a chat and though I could come on here and vent and talk for a bit.
That's nice for yourself @Birdofparadise8 - skin routine. Esp because after your surgery, you may not be able to do it for a while!
You have really come so far - so proud of you.
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tymeModerator
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Distraction is good @creative_writer - for a time.
Then one day, it'll be about working on more than distractions.
For for now, if distractions is what you need, please do it.
When does uni go back?
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Birdofparadise8Senior Contributor
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Yeah thank you I am just doing a face mask and my face is tingling and tight.
I suppose I have as I wouldn’t not have been doing as regular as I am a few months ago. That tonight’s opinion maybe next week Laura will be different hahaha.
What are you doing for the weekend @tyme
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creative_writerSenior Contributor
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@tyme distractions may ease depression but won’t get rid of it. Distraction is good for rumination, but my depression has a mind of its own, it’ll come whenever it wants and leaves whenever it wants. I wish I could say there was always an obvious trigger, but there isn’t. But there is an obvious aggravator, rumination.
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creative_writerSenior Contributor
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@tyme uni starts mid Feb
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Birdofparadise8Senior Contributor
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I hope you don't mind me jumping in here, @creative_writer. How do you work on using more than a distraction when sometimes that isn't enough @tyme?
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tymeModerator
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Do you need to get nice pretty stationery for uni @creative_writer ? Retail therapy? LOL.
Hugs @creative_writer
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creative_writerSenior Contributor
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@Birdofparadise8 I’ve grouped my strategies in three categories, there is distraction, there is self-soothing like grounding, mindfulness, imagery, affirmations. And there is expression e.g., art, crying, writing and talking.
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creative_writerSenior Contributor
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@tyme my sister has the good pens. I can steal those lol
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